1. Blackening Of The Bride
This is the typical premarital humiliation that Scottish brides endures in certain parts of the country.
2. A Salty Wedding Song
Although weddings are usually accompanied by tears, brides, and females of the Tujia people in China take matters to a whole new level. Starting one whole month in advance the bride starts to cry for one hour everyday. 10 days into the ordeal the mom joins the picture, and then 10 days later the grandmother does the same. By the end of the month every female in the family is crying alongside the bride.
3. Save The Date
There is a group of people called the Daur that live in Chinese Inner Mongolia. In order to finalize the wedding date the bride and groom are required to kill a baby chick while holding the knife together. Then they proceed to gut the chick and inspect it's liver. If the liver looks good, then they are allowed to set a date. If not, then they have to repeat the process until they find a satisfactory liver.
4. Trees?
In India, women born as Mangliks (an astrological combination when Mars and Saturn are both under 7th house) are thought to be cursed and likely to cause their husband an early death. In order to ward of this curse, they must be married first...to a tree. The tree is then destroyed and the curse is broken. Poor tree.
5. Hold It In
For tribes of the Tidong community in Northern Borneo newly married couples are required to be confined to their house while not emptying their bowels or urinating for three days and nights.
Reference : 25 Extremely Strange Wedding Traditions
http://list25.com/25-extremely-strange-wedding-traditions
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